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General information Core i5-2300 Athlon X4 840
Launched Q1 2011 Q1 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1155 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i5 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge Kaveri
Clock 2.8 GHz 9.7 % 3.1 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.1 GHz 18.4 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 28 nm 12.5 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-2300 Athlon X4 840
Overall Score 38655 0 % 38367 0.7 %
Future Proof 23 % 50 % 46 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 2233 0 % 2167 3 %
Single Thread Score 1431 4.1 % 1492.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 4802.4 MB/s 0 % 4600.2 MB/s 4.2 %
Compressing Data 55.4 MB/s 0 % 54.8 MB/s 1.1 %
String objects sorting 7706.4 thousand/s 0 % 6467.4 thousand/s 16.1 %
Prime numbers generation 22 millions/s 0 % 12.9 millions/s 41.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 12115.3 millions/s 38 % 19553.2 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 6272.8 millions/s 0 % 5456.5 millions/s 13 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-2300, Athlon X4 840.

Average frames per second Core i5-2300 Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 69.2 FPS 68.3 FPS
High settings 110.7 FPS 109.3 FPS
Medium settings 138.4 FPS 136.7 FPS
Low settings 173.0 FPS 170.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.2 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i5-2300 Athlon X4 840
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.4 FPS 117.9 FPS
High settings 189.4 FPS 188.6 FPS
Medium settings 236.7 FPS 235.7 FPS
Low settings 295.9 FPS 294.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.4 %
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